The Golden Spike is a featured cocktail at Lower 48 restaurant in Denver. (Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post.)

Lower 48 is a new restaurant at 2020 Lawerence St., and along with excellent food they also have a dandy cocktail program — including a concoction dubbed the Golden Spike. Though given the Feb. 2 Super Bowl disaster — Seahawks 43, Broncos 8 if you weren’t paying attention — maybe it should be renamed the Orange Spike after the dagger driven into the hearts of Bronco Nation.

(The cocktail is in fact named in honor of the driving of the golden spike at the meeting of the Transcontinental Railroad in Promontory Utah on May 10, 1869. Lower 48 has something of a Western theme.)

I had the pleasure of sipping this cocktail on a recent review visit to Lower 48, and Brandon Brough, the mixology master who created it, was kind enough to pass his recipe along. Here it is: